According to the Guardian, she wrote: “The camera was shooting, hundreds of migrants broke through the police cordon, one of them rushed to me and I was scared.

Attack: László gets ready to pounce

“Then something snapped in me … I just thought that I was attacked and I have to protect myself. It’s hard to make good decisions at a time when people are in a panic.”

László added that she was willing to take responsibility for her actions, but went on: “I’m not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman.

"I do not deserve the political witch-hunts against me, nor the smears or the death threats."

Ms Laszlo works for N1TV, which has links to the Hungary's far right Jobbik party.

Trip: The fleeing migrant falls to the ground

She was filming a group of refugees running away from police officers, when a man carrying a child in his arms ran past her her.

She stuck her leg out and the man tripped, falling on top of the young child he was carrying.

He turned and shouted at Lazlo, who continued to film him.

Other pictures emerged that appear to show her kicking other migrants, including a child.

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A statement on the TV station's website read: "Today, a N1TV colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roeszke reception centre. The cameraman's employment was terminated with immediate effect.”

Twitter users were horrified at her actions.

One wrote: "What you have done is not only not professional, but unforgivable!

"You are truly hideous inside out.”

Another added: “Firing Petra Laszlo isn't enough. This woman should be arrested for assault and battery.

"Take this violent, sadistic and racist person to jail.

Hungarian police herded hundreds of migrants past 13-foot high fences topped with razor wire into a new "Alien Holding Centre” on its southern border on Sunday, readying a security clampdown on an unremitting influx from Serbia.

Prone: The camerawoman appears to kick two children as they lie on the floor

The right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of Europe's most vociferous critics of mass immigration to Europe, has vowed to cut illegal border crossings to zero as of September 15, with a 108-mile barrier and stringent new laws.

He has asked parliament to approve sending in the army.

Orban’s government has shrugged off the symbolism and Cold War echoes - noted by critics in western Europe - of razor-wire barriers and watchtowers along borders in formerly Communist eastern Europe.